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Optimizing Bat Paths

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026

Every year new metrics are being made available to the public through Statcast. In the latest drop batting metrics were ...read more

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An examination of Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s World Series Usage: Risky or perfectly safe and rational?

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026

As FOX returned to its World Series Game 7 coverage of the bottom of the ninth inning back in November, ...read more

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Is It Possible To Build Another Nolan Ryan? We Give It A Try.

December 18, 2025December 19, 2025

Leigh Montville was one of the few writers to get an up-close look at Nolan Ryan’s offseason routine. Prior to ...read more

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How many fastballs should a pitcher have on the menu?

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025

Logan Webb did a curious thing in 2025, well, a few curious things. San Francisco Giants ace had alrady long established himself as one of the better ...read more

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Olympic Lifts for Baseball Players – Is Power Planar?

March 16, 2011June 10, 2022

While there aren’t any Olympic lifts in our first training video (as seen in the right sidebar), our older baseball ...read more

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Pitching Mechanics

Closed-Chain vs. Open-Chain Motion

August 10, 2010April 5, 2021

I’ve gotten a few questions about when to use closed-chain training techniques in comparison to open-chain techniques. But first, for ...read more

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P90x for Baseball?

March 3, 2010June 10, 2022

In an excellent (and controversial) post about Crossfit for baseball athletes, Eric Cressey talked about why Crossfit’s Workout of the ...read more

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